Fastening clip



NOV. 22, 1960 s, cH ETAL 2,960,737

FASTENkNG CLIP Filed June 8, 1959 HERBERT .5. K/mscl-l Monro/v GOLDISEEGGERALD A/ Geeavsmu F l G.. 2 INVENTOR.

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I 4 I I I" .4 TTOENEV United States Patent FASTENING CLIP Herbert S.Kirsch, 126 B Iozia Terrace, East Paterson, NJ.; Morton Goldberg, 115Dawson Ave., Clifton, N..l.; and Gerald N. Greenspan, 130 A IoziaTerrace, East Paterson, N .J

Filed June 8, 1959, Ser. No. 818,657 1 Claim. (Cl. 24--85) Our inventionrelates to cloth fastening devices and is directed particularly to afastening clip for temporarily securing the overlapping corner portionsof diapers together when diapering an infant.

Diaper pins having sharp points are commonly used to fasten diapers, andthough various safety diaper pins have been designed to preventaccidental opening, such pins are far from accident-proof. Moreover,great care has to be exercised in using such pins.

It is accordingly the principal object of my invention to provide animproved fastening device or clip for diapers and other cloth fasteningpurposes which has no sharp projecting points and which therefore cannotaccidently cause injury by sticking the skin.

Another object is to provide a fastening clip of the character describedwhich can easily be applied and which will hold the overlapped andclipped cloth portions securely together.

Still another object is to provide a fastening clip of the above naturewhich is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture andlong-wearing and dependable in use.

Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparentfrom the following description when read with reference to theaccompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a fastening clip embodying the inventionshown in use in fastening together overlapping portions of a diaper;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of thefastening clip;

Fig. 3 is bottom view thereof;

Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the fastening clip takenalong the line 4-4 of Fig. 3 in the direction of the arrows; and

Fig. 5 is a horizontal cross-sectional view thereof taken along the line55 of Fig. 4 in the direction of the arrows.

Referring now in detail to the drawings wherein like references denotecorresponding parts throughout the several views, our improved fasteningclip is formed of a strip of resilient metal, such as spring steel, andhas a flat bottom portion integrally formed with a folded-over topportion 11 to provide a U-shaped loop portion 11a at one end. The freeend of the top portion 11 is inclined inwardly to approach the uppersurface of the bottom portion 10 in spaced relation thereto. The outerextremity of the top portion 11 is curved upwardly and rounded at thecorners, as indicated at 12 in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, for the purposehereinafter appearing.

As best illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 the bottom portion 10 of the clipis formed with two pairs of aligned, longitudinally spaced arcuateprotrusions 13, 13 and 14, 14, respectively, which are convenientlystruck inwardly from the underside of said bottom portion. The topportion 11 of the clip is provided with an inwardly-struck rectangulartongue member 15 which, as best illustrated in Fig. 4, extends into thespace between the arcuate pro trusions 13, 13 of the bottom portion 11,the free end of said tongue extending generally toward the loop 11a ofthe clip. The top portion 11 is further provided with an inwardly struckarcuate protrusion 16 which, as best illustrated in Figs. 4 and S, dipscentrally between innermost portions of the arcuate protrusions 14, 14in the bottom portion 11.

Means is provided for anchoring a shirt tab to the clip in addition toits use as a diaper fastener. To this end, a thin elongated strip 17 isstruck from central longitudinal portions of the bottom portion 10 andloop portion 11a of the clip. The strip 17 remains joined with the topportion 11 near the inner end thereof and is bent outwardly andbackwardly in spaced relation over said top portion. The strip 17 isformed with a central inwardly-bent arcuate portion 18 which extendsinto the opening in the top portion 11 left by the inwardly-struckarcuate protrusion 16 thereof. The strip 17 terminates in a pointed endportion 19 which overlies the top portion 11 of the clip in specialparallel relation at a position between the protrusion 16 and tonguemember 15 thereof.

In use the clip will be pushed down over the overlapped ends of thediaper D or other end sections of material to be clipped together, asillustrated in Fig. l. The resiliency of the clip will press theoverlapped portions of the material together, clamping them in place.The tongue 15 and arcuate protrusion 16 of the top portion 11 will atthe same time press spaced portions of the overlapped material down intothe longitudinal openings between the pairs of arcuate protrusions 13,13 and 14, 14, respectively, thereby frictionally preventing relativesliding between the material and the clip, either laterally orlongitudinally. When used in diapering infants, the pointed end portion19 of the strip 17 provides a convenient hook for the tabs usuallyfurnished at each side at the lower end of an infants shirt.

While there has been disclosed in this specification one form in whichthe invention may be embodied in practice, it is to be understood thatthis form is presented by way of example only and that the invention isnot limited to the specific disclosure, but may be modified and embodiedin other equivalent forms without departing from its spirit. In short,the invention includes all the modifications and embodiments comingwithin the scope of the following claim.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new andfor which it is desired to secure Letters Patent is:

A diaper clip comprising a strip of spring metal of U-shape providing aloop portion at one end and opposed, spaced top and bottom portionsextending toward each other, a first pair of laterally spaced inwardlydirected arcuate protrusions struck in said bottom portion in the outerend portion thereof, a second pair of laterally spaced inwardly directedarcuate protrusions struck in said bottom portion in the inner endportion thereof, a

tongue member struck from said top portion and extending generally inthe direction of said loop portion in the space between said first pairof arcuate protrusions, a single protrusion struck in said top portionand extending inwardly into the space between said second pair ofarcuate protrusions an elongated pin struck from said strip andoverlying said top portion and having an inwardly directed centralportion extending into the opening left by and in substantially parallelrelation to the inwardly struck single protrusion, and an inwardly andangularly directed pointed end for said pin in abutting relation to theouter surface of said top portion, said pin extending generally in adirection away from said loop portion.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS792,520 Lockwood June 13, 1905 1,454,783 Yetter May 8, 1923 1,533,702Gerla Apr. 14, 1925

